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Probethylus Ashmead

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chrysidoidea; Family: Sclerogibbidae)

Probethylus Ashmead 1902. Type species: Probethylus schwarzi Ashmead 1902.

 

Probethylus callani Richards, 1939

Distribution

Probethylus callani_map

Nearctic: USA: Arizona, California, Texas. Neotropical: Mexico, Trinidad, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. Afrotropical: South Africa, Congo, Yemen.

Biology

 Parasitoids of Embiidina.

Reference

 Ashmead W.H. 1902. Classification of fossorial, predaceous and parasitic wasps, or the superfamily Vespoidea. Canadian Entomol., 34: 268-273.

Credits

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